1. Change at the Community College
St. Clair County Community College
Port Huron, Michigan

2. Community College Issues:
Accountability questions
Data Driven Agenda
Facilitating Change
Keeping the Focus on Students

3. How do you connect:
Response to outside “drivers” (federal, state, community);
Internal “drivers” (staff, students, faculty);
Institutional change and its challenges;
Accountability issues;
Our role in retention and student success;

4. St. Clair County Community College
Achieving the Dream
Focus on Developmental Education
Keeping the students in the forefront
Utilizing data without using a hammer
A Collegial Approach

5. Achieving the Dream
National Organization of Community College Memberships with a focus on increasing student success, especially students of color and low-income students
Joining provided us with a process for defining and reporting data related to student success and supports the implementation of activities aimed at narrowing the learning gaps of our students

6. SC4 and Achieving the Dream
Submitted application: March, 2010
Attended National Kickoff Event: June, 2010
Planning year: 2010/2011
Implementation proposal submitted: May, 2011
Implementation of Interventions began: Fall 2011

7. We began: Courageous Conversations Working with Faculty
Learning to work with data
Making ADT a CAMPUS project
An honest review of what we do and why we do it

8. FALL SEMESTER CAMPUS UPDATE
Achieving the Dream
Applied to become a Leader College
Additional Focus for 2012/13: Equity
Coaches visiting twice a year to monitor and provide support
Interventions Continue
New student orientation
Developmental reading/English support for students
Math Center
Math Study Skills course
Mentoring program
St. Clair County Community College September 14, 2012

9. Roles What roles could change? What affect does this have on staff?
What did we do about it?

10. Getting People on Board
Why would we want to change?
Financial situation
Reorganization
Expansion
New opportunities
New challenges
Better service to students?
We are being forced to do it.

11. What are the advantages for change?
For students
For the college
For the staff
How can you cut through the red tape?

12. FALL SEMESTER CAMPUS UPDATE
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies ~Robert Kennedy
St. Clair County Community College September 9, 2011

13. “Better is Possible…” “…It does not take genius. It takes diligence.
It takes moral clarity.
It takes ingenuity.
And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”
Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon’s Note on Performance

14. Change is good…
You go first!

15. A Simple Motto:
“Do the right thing for the right reason and when in doubt, lean toward the student”

16. Putting Students First:
Create a culture of responsibility, high standards, and clear expectations;
Provide a deep and broad array of student support services;
When in doubt lean in the direction of the student;
Recognize that students are much more than customers, but recognize that they are also customers;
Create a student processes taskforce.